New University of Memphis Center for Health Law

The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law is seeking
the founding Director for its new Center for Health Law.  The position announcement notes:

The Director’s responsibilities will include strategic planning,
fundraising, curriculum development, maintenance and growth of relationships
with relevant local, national, and international scholarly and professional
associations, scholarship production, teaching, and mentoring.

The Law School seeks to expand its health-law curriculum and related
health-law opportunities for the purpose of assuming the leading role in the
MidSouth in training health-care lawyers, promoting scholarship and discussion
concerning health-care law and policy, and providing pro bono health
care-related legal services to low-income individuals.  This initiative is aligned with the
University’s increasing emphasis on health-related education, demonstrated,
inter alia, by the recent founding of the School of Public Health and a
significant expansion of the School of Nursing.